Category: Immigrants
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Fernando – on thinking BIG: “I remember meeting with a former student of mine, Esteban Burchard, when he entered Stanford Medical School. I asked him what he wanted to do. He said he wanted to be a family practitioner. I told him, ‘I don’t want you to be just a family doctor. I want you…
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First-generation college student and son of Mexican farm working immigrants, on his way to becoming a primary care physician in California’s Central Valley. Geovanni Suarez grew up in the small rural town of Porterville in California’s Central Valley. His pediatrician was Ramon Resa, an abandoned farmworker boy in Central Valley who became a doctor and…
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We held a special private screening of Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals © on July 22nd at the Hill Center in Washington, DC where six of the ten professionals featured in the film attended: Congressman Raul Ruiz, Lisa Ramirez, Fernando Mendoza MD, Ramon Resa MD, former Congressman Tony Cárdenas and Enrique Diaz. Also in attendance…
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People ask me why I made Migrant Child Farmworkers to High-Profile Professionals ©, a film about people of color who were homeless, hungry, abused, discriminated against, former child farm laborers and immigrants. What could I possibly have in common with them? I’ve asked myself countless times over the ten long, arduous and self-esteem-eroding years it’s…
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We all saw the video of California Senator Alex Padilla being strong-armed out of press conference room, taken out to the hallway, shoved face-down onto the floor and handcuffed behind his back. We saw how he clearly stated his name as they shoved him out the door, “I’m … Senator … Alex .. Padilla,” as…
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California State Senator Anna Caballero, one of the ten professionals featured in the documentary short film Migrant Child Farmworkers – Now High-Profile Professionals©, narrated by Xolo Maridueña (star of Blue Beetle and Cobra Kai), supports the farm workers and agricultural economy of our state as she explains here: I proudly joined my colleagues in the California Legislative…
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Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
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BY: John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. On January 2, 1855, New York Mayor Fernando Wood wrote to President Franklin Pierce: The disease and pauperism arriving here almost daily is, of itself, a sufficient evil; but when to it is added crime, we must be permitted…
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Society Got It Wrong! Watch Now – RAMON RISING Film: Abandoned Boy to Doctor | Dr. Ramon Resa | Talks at Google The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals© documentary began as a film about Dr. Ramon Resa’s inspiring journey from abandoned boy to pediatrician. It was then entitled, Ramon Rising. This Talks at Google episode…
